Intro to social media for instruction
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Overview
• Build your professional network on Twitter• Increase communication and feedback in the
classroom using Facebook and Twitter• Engage students with rich content on various
social media like YouTube• Develop strategies for managing your social
media
BUILD YOUR PROFESSIONAL NETWORK ON TWITTER
Getting started with Twitter.com
Download the Twitter App
OR
Send a text message
“Start”
to 40404
How to update your bio
Complete bio or profile
Tips for completing your bio
• Upload a picture of yourself, true representation
• Follow the social media culture
• Focus on potential common interests
• Identify your educational institution
• Be professional, yet personal
Tweeting: Introduce yourself
I’m Tanya Joosten from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, teach communication, help other faculty use technology #NUSYM13
Build your network
Following
Hashtags
• #nusym13
• #edusocmedia
• #edtech
• #highered
• #socmedia
• #sachat
• #edchat
• #lrnchat
Google: education hashtags
Others ways to network
• Conference hashtags (#blend13, #nmc13, #dtl2013)
• Join live sessions (#edchat, #sachat)
• Review campus twitter accounts and hasthags (@uwm, #iamuwm)
Tips to developing a network
• Update social media profiles to include an image and a bio appropriate for the social media.
• Connect with colleagues through conference or professional group hashtags.
• Identify useful or influential colleagues and review to who they are connected.
• Participate in your educational institution’s social media accounts.
Technology will save us!
Facebook is the answer!
Bwahahahaha!
Why use social media?
It’s not about the technology, it’s all social
Larry Johnson, NMC
global collaborative anytime anyplace mobility access literacy
informal learning
Connect
Social media, a definition
“A virtual place where people share; everybody and anybody can share anything anywhere anytime” (Joosten, 2012, p. 6).
What is the student voice?
Assess your students’ needs
I want to feel connected
According to a survey by Joosten (2009), students reported that they need good (67%) and
frequent communication (90%) with their instructor and good communication with their classmates (75%). They also reported
that they need to feel connected to learn (80%) (http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).
I don’t use email
According to PEW Internet study, “Teens who participated in focus groups for this study said that
they view email as something you use to talk to ‘old people,’ institutions, or to send complex instructions to large groups “ (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teens-and-Technology.aspx?r=1).
I use social media
95.1% of 18- and 19-year-olds use social media, primarily Facebook on a daily basis (Salaway, et al., 2009)
96% of undergraduates reported using Facebook (Smith & Caruso, 2010)
43% of undergraduate use Twitter (Smith & Caruso, 2010)
90% use mobile devices to receive and send text messages (Smith, 2010), over 1600 a month (Neilson, 2010)
92% of college-aged students watch YouTube (Moore, 2011)
I like social media for learning
Use
social media
Warning!
Technology is only the medium
You need
a pedagogical strategy
What is your pedagogical need?
Assess your needs
Increase communication and contact
INCREASE COMMUNICATION THROUGH A FACEBOOK FAN PAGE
Increasing communication and encouraging contact
Who are our students?
• I want to feel connected
• I don’t use email
• I use social media, a lot
An example: Jewish studies
An example: Clinical lab sciences
Getting started with Facebook
Benefits• Increases interactions between instructors and students
• Enhances communication and builds feelings of connectedness
• Create a strong pedagogically sound sense of presence in your classroom
• Overcomes the challenges of students at a distance or in remote locations
• Facilitates providing timely student feedback
• Helps students stay organized
• Increases student performance
• Results in high levels of satisfaction of instructors and students
INCREASE FEEDBACK OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CLASSROOM USING TWITTER
Building cooperation and feedback
• CATs• Peer Instruction• Reflection
An example
Benefits
• Provides an opportunity for active learning in large lectures
• Enhances students participation and engagement in class
• Provides frequent, low stakes feedback on student learning
• Creates an opportunity for just in time teaching or to address weaknesses in student learning
• Provides a strategy for integrating blended courses, online and f2f
• Develops cooperation among students
• Increases students satisfaction
SHARE RICH MEDIA AND CONTENT ON VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENGAGE STUDENTS
Developing a richer learning experience
Creating a YouTube Account
Creating a YouTube Playlist
YouTube alternatives
Content & Publication• SchoolTube• TeacherTube• Vimeo
Educational Content• MIT World• PBS.org• TED • YouTube.EDU
And many more!
Benefits
• Improving student learning
• Helps instructors manage their workload
• Enhances 21st century literacy skills for instructors and students
• Facilitates the use of rich and current content
• Enhances student engagement
DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA
5 questions to consider
• What is the pedagogical need?
• How will the selected social media help meet that need?
• What aspects of the learning process should be improved?
• What learning outcomes can be better achieved through the use of the selected social media over other technologies?
• What is the expected behavior of students within the selected social media?
What is your pedagogical need?
• Increase communication and encourage contact
• Engage students through rich, current media
• Gather and provide feedback in the classroom
• Create a cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities
Social Dashboards - TweetDeck
No matter the technology, how can you enhance your pedagogy?
Get it!
Connect w/me
• twitter.com/tjoosten
• linkedin.com/in/tjoosten
• facebook.com/tjoosten
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